The 10 Best San Jose Suburbs To Live In For 2024

The 10 Best San Jose Suburbs To Live For 2024

Los Altos Hills is always mentioned as one of the best suburbs in the San Jose area. We’ll tell you the good about “Awesome Los Altos Hills.”

Everyone here is rich; families average $250,001 a year, which is the 3rd highest in the San Jose region. And only 2.78% are out of work. Homes average more than $5,525,121 each.

Los Altos is the second best ‘burb we looked at near San Jose for 2024.

It ranks 3rd for incomes in the area and only 1.33% of residents lack insurance, good for 6th best.

Here in Atherton, it’s really safe, and residents are just about as rich as you’ll see in the San Jose metro area.

The bad side? Schools are more crowded, and the cost of living puts a large part of the city out of reach for most families.

But price is based on demand and a lot of people want to live in Atherton.

Monte Sereno ranks as the 4th best suburb of San Jose for 2024.

You won’t find many better places to raise your kids in the region than in Monte Sereno and the schools are some of the best around.

Coming in as the fifth best is Cupertino.

Cupertino gets kudos for having the 9th most expensive homes in the San Jose area, where houses sell for an average of $2,701,204. However, the cost of living here is among the highest in the area.

Portola Valley is proud of its 6th place finish on this list. And here’s why.

Most residents have great jobs and the unemployment rate sits at 2.73%.

According to online reports, Portola Valley is quickly becoming one of the more affluent suburbs in the San Jose area, meaning you need to get in soon.

The 7th best suburb on our list goes to Saratoga.

Saratoga schools are some of the best in the region, and crime is really low. The cost of living makes it a lot more desirable for many families, especially first-time home buyers.

And, it’s only 11.5 miles to downtown, which is a good thing.

San Carlos is growing quickly, and for a good reason. Crime is far below average, and most residents are gainfully employed. Even the cost of living is reasonable.

A solid 1.19% of people lack insurance, good for 5th in the area.

Is ‘Everything Better In Palo Alto?’

Almost.

It placed 9th on our list thanks to the fact that it’s really expensive to live here, but the schools are great, so you get what you pay for in that regard.

Review Of Palo Alto by HomeSnacks User

I live in Palo Alto, and I never doubted that we ranked high on snobbery. After all, not only do we have a community theater company and a community orchestra, but we have a community opera company as well.||I don’t know where Palo Alto stands with this metric or how much it is weighted, but I take objection to your inclusion of private school density as a criterion.

Firstly, the number of private schools in a city relative to that city’s population is not necessarily the best measure of how many eligible students in a city attend private school, as private schools may vary in size and often do not restrict enrollment to the residents of their host city.

Secondly, while private school enrollment is an understandable measure to be associated with snobbery, given that in most parts of the country elites seek out private schools for the usually superior quality of education they provide, Palo Alto may be an exception that proves the rule.

In Palo Alto, the quality of our public schools rivals that of many nearby private schools. Therefore, many Palo Alto parents proudly send their children to public school, deeming private school unnecessarily expensive for its relative value. Does this fact make us more or less s****y-

And rounding out the top ten for 2024 is Woodside.

This city is far above average in every category, and the best part? It’s far more affordable than the other cities listed above. So, you get a big bang for your buck here.

Methodology: How We Determined The Best Suburbs Around San Jose for 2024

Figuring out the best suburbs around San Jose was simple. We used Saturday Night Science to find things people like about living in the suburbs and then locate the suburbs with those things.

We analyzed the newest American Community Survey data for 2018-2022 to research each suburb. We decided upon the following criteria:

• Low unemployment rate
• High median household incomes
• Population density (lots of things to do)
• High home values
• A lot of college-educated people
• Low poverty
• High rate of insured families

We defined a suburb as being within 30 miles of San Jose.

Additionally, we limited the analysis to places that have over 3,000 people. This left us with a grand total of 30 suburbs to evaluate around San Jose.

We ranked each place with scores from 1 to 30 in each category, where 1 was the “best.

Next, we averaged the rankings for each place to create a quality-of-life index.

Finally, we crowned the city with the best quality of life index, the “Best Suburb near San Jose.” We’re lookin’ at you, Los Altos Hills.

This result may differ from our state-wide data as we did not include commute times and crime for this analysis to allow for a more extensive selection of suburbs.

We updated the data for 2024. This report is our tenth time ranking the best San Jose suburbs. Skip to the end to see the list of all the suburbs ranked from best to worst.